Winter Training (5th Semester), Nov-2013

Division of Instrumentation & Control Engineering

1. A tank system is represented by the following first-order differential equation:

where h(t) is the liquid level and q(t) is the input flow rate in m3/min.
(a) Develop a Laplace transform model for the system.
(b) Use Simulink to find the response of h(t) to a step change of 1 m3/min, but where
there is a slowly varying frequency on the input signal of amplitude 0.1 and
frequency 0.05 Hz.
2. For each of the second order systems below, plot the step response using SIMULINK.
Find , wn, Ts, Tp, Tr, % overshoot from the response.
(a)
(b)
(c)
3. A unity feedback control system has forward path gain

. A damping

ratio of 0.6 is desired through derivative control. Determine the value of derivative
time constant Td and compare rise time, peak time, maximum overshoot, settling time
(a) without (b) with derivative control.
4. Obtain the pole-zero map of following transfer functions. Also, study Bode plot and
calculate gain and phase margin. Comment on the stability of these systems.
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5. The pendulum shown in figure:

has the following nonlinear equation of motion, if there is viscous friction in the pivot
and if there is applied moment M(t) about the pivot .

where I is the mass moment of inertia about the pivot . creat the simulink model for the
system where
is square wave with amplitude of 3
and frequency of 0.5 Hertz. Assume initial conditions are
6. A buildings thermostat has been off for a period of time sufficient to allow the inside
and outside temperatures to equalize. The thermostat is then set to 75F. It is
programmed to turn off when the interior temperature reaches 78F and back on when
it falls below 72F. The furnace produces 36,000 Btu/h. Thermal capacitance of the
occupied space and interior furnishings is 300 Btu/F, and the thermal resistance of
the walls is 8 10-4 F per Btu/h. The outside temperature is a constant 50F.
(a) Find the time constant of the system.
(b) Show that the furnace is capable of raising the building temperature to 78F.
(c) Find the temperature response and the time required for the building temperature
to reach 78F.
(d) Find the temperature response and the time required for the building temperature
to cool down to 72F.
(e) Find the temperature response and the time required for the building temperature
to go back to 78F.Simulate the temperature responses in parts (c), (d), and (e)
by solving a
difference equation with appropriate step size and compare the approximate and
exact solutions.
7. A safety bumper is placed at the end of a racetrack to stop out-of-control cars as
shown in Figure. The bumper is designed in such a way that the force applied is a
function of the velocity v and the displacement x of the front edge of the bumper
according to the equation
F = Kv3(x + 1)3 where K = 35 s-kg/m5 is a constant.
A car with a mass m of 1800 kg hits the bumper at a speed of 60 km/h. Determine and
plot the velocity of the car as a function of its position for 0 x 3 m.

8. The flight of a model rocket can be developed as follows. During the first 0.15 s the
rocket is propelled up by the rocket engine with a force of 16 N. The rocket then flies
up while slowing down under the force of gravity. After it reaches its peak, the rocket
starts to fall back. When its down velocity reaches 20 m/s a parachute opens (assumed
to open instantly) and the rocket continues to move down at a constant speed of 20
m/s until it hits the ground. Write a program that calculates and plots the speed and
altitude of the rocket as a function of time during the flight.

9. From electric circuit theory, it is known that charging a capacitor with a constant
current produces a linear voltage across it, that is,

where C is the capacitance in farads, I is the constant current through the capacitor I
in amperes, and Vc is the linear voltage across the capacitor in volts. Using aVariable
Transport Delay block create a model to display the output if I = 2 mA, C= 1000 F,
and the voltage across the capacitor at some time t0 is V0= 2v.
10. Study of tuning of PID controller with Ziegler-Nicholas method for the following
plant for step response in Simulink.

11. It is known that the transfer function of a system is

Use the bilinear transformation to convert this transfer function to the Z-transform
equivalent, and create a model showing the waveforms of both the step response in
the sdomain and in the z-domain.
12. The price of a particular security (stock) over a 10-day period is as follows:
12 18 16 15 17 18 20 18 19 14
where the last value is the most recent. Create a model for the moving average
sequence n-k+1 with k =4.
13. Obtain the unit-step response and unit-ramp response of the following system using
MATLAB.

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14. Consider the differential equation system given by

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Find the state-space equation for the system. Also, obtain the response y(t) of the
system subject to the given initial conditions .

15. In a bandpass filter, the lower and upper cut-off frequencies are f1 = 2 Hz and f2 = 6
Hz respectively. Compute the 1 energy of the input, and the percentage that appears
at the output, if the input signal is
volts.
16. A discrete-time system is described by the difference equation
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where
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a. Compute the transfer function H(z)
b. Compute the impulse response h[n]
c. Compute the response when the input is x[n]= 10 for n0

Reference:

Analysis and design of Control Systems with MATLAB, Rao V. Dukkipati, New Age
International.
MATLAB/SIMULINK User Help
For Control system concepts refers books: Ogata, M. Gopal, Wilkie etc.